Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Feb 16, 2017

  This game has the potential to be a pretty fun and entertaining tycoon, but as it stands it falls way short. This feels like a 30% done Early Access game, the developer even admits that there are stuff not yet done. That said I've had some fun with it, but it gets very grindy and stays that way without having a payoff as far as I can tell. Pros: - Good time waster (while doing something else) - Decent art style - A fair amount of character costumization options (although only cosmetic) - Making albums and getting better stats is fun for a while. - The core gameplay loop is engaging for an hour or two. - The theme is well suited for the genre. Cons: - The gameplay after 10 hours is 100% the same as after 1 hour, nothing changes. - Almost every single feature feels shallow and incomplete. - Money is irrelevant after playing a few hours since there is nothing to buy (all you do in the game is earn money and fans) - 10+ hours in game and I have nothing to do but grind to get fans to unlock cities which takes FOREVER. - Fan growth which are needed to unlock new cities does not scale with your income which means progression stops. - There is literally no way to progress other than constant grinding. - The game lacks support for aspect ratios not 16:9. - There are some interface bugs that requires a forced quit of the game. - The UI requires constant clicking and extra clicks for a ton of stuff, there are no hotkeys or "quality of life" features such as assigning all characters to the same task. - Many important menus are nested under oddly placed sections. - There is a massive lack of content. - There are just a few random events that repeat constantly. The biggest fault in my opinion is that once you get to a point where you actually have a great band the game just fizzles out. Instead of becoming the Rock God as the title suggests you'll still be doing the exact same thing you did from the start.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 18, 2017

  As others have stated, this game is lacking in content. How can you release a game to version 1.0 and still have intended features greyed out. This game is still early access, despite being "fully released". Tycoon Aspect -No control over where you live You just get forced out of the first two places until you get your apartment. Would've liked to be able to pick a place to live and move out on my own earlier, instead of having to wait for the parents to kick me out. Multiple cities to actually live in would be a good feature, which brings me to my next point. -Poor gig/rehearsal management Being in a band forces you to manage your time wisely. The game gives you a 1 week timeline to set up gigs and rehearsals, making cashflow too easy as you can just kick it in a town and rehearse on some days while playing gigs on the other days. I've never known a band to stay in a town for a month, playing at the same businesses. A calendar booking system would be better, as you could plan your tours in advance, trying to make the deadline with your crappy car/van. In addition to that, a penalty should be added if you play at the same venue more than 2 or 3 times in a row, with a cooldown timer of a couple of weeks. After a while, returning home would be a necessity. -Lack of Genre There's no different type of music that limits your bands and the places they place. It's just, "generic rock band" playing at "generic bar". Adding Genres and certain perks would've been a good design choice and add to the uniqueness of the game. Smaller nitpicks -Events that pop up are repeated frequently and have very little variety. -No ways to deal with druggie bandmates, except for firing (rehab might be a good way to mitigate it) -No "team building" events -No way to rehearse without going to a recording studio -Doesn't seem to be a difference in output for rehearsing quality, despite better recording studios. -Despite my drummer being at a 100 rating, the reviewers always rag on him for being unexpierienced -Haven't found a use for promotions at time of booking (no real fan increase after shows vs not using them) -Can't self publish/record songs, which would be a cool little feature early on in the game and way to get a little better money early on. -5 star rating and not even half of the towns are unlocked yet (based on fan count i believe) Rythym Aspect -Not satisfying If you create your own song, you can only play it (for now) on guitar. Aside from that, it's just not satisfying. Play a bit more guitar hero and come back to this aspect devs. Vary your Easy/Medium/Hard modes. Easy mode still has all the "colors" to hit, just less frequency. Most rythym games limit the buttons you have to hit on various difficulty. Hitting the notes doesn't "feel" right either. That's really all I have for that part of the game. I've abandoned the song creation due to it not being worth my time to actually play the song. It's too bad, I like the idea of creating your own stuff, but just simulating the shows and rehearsals are good enough..or they would be if the tycoon aspect was better. Overall, I'm not too mad, as it's only 10.99. I do feel that price tag is more than what the game is worth at its current released state. The choice to release the game without completing it is a poor one. Wait until it goes on sale or see if the devs update it enough to warrant buying it.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 19, 2017

  Initially, I gave this game a negative review, because of the amount of bugs. Although there are still some bugs in the game, the developers seem to be working pretty hard to fix them. One of the devs contacted me and quickly resolved my issue. The game itself is pretty good, and I'd recommend it. Pros: Good soundtrack + song creation mode Addicting (personally), with a lot to do A lot of customisation Friendly and helpful devs Cons: Bugs (These are getting sorted by the day, it seems) The game appears to be missing some content, like the intro section of the guitars on song creation feature (again, content seems to be getting added quite often)
• gamedeal user

  Mar 5, 2017

  This review is after about 90 hours of gameplay. I found this game via my explore queue. I am not tight with money but I do not tend to throw it at stuff before I reseach a little and see if I am wasting my cash. At the time, 0$ was easily had, and I was bored with all my standard FPS or survival games. I was looking for something different... I may have found it in Rock God Tycoon... It is a casual style biz simulator with a rock theme. There are a few new mechanisms like song creation and the production flow... but lets just say,,, IMHO, A gem, a rough gem with some great facets, that still needs some facets revealed and a little polish to be a top ranking casual indie game. However, it is very playable as is.... just a little weak but still under DEVELOPMENT. Buy it now.. it's almost done, and I have a feeling the DEVS would really appreciate the love...! Pros: Decent Game mechanics like the Song to Album release production flow Has a little bit of a head banger feel Pausable/casual gameplay Survival mechanic inherent with the ability to go broke Basic trait system (that great guitarist may miss gigs due to habits) Cons: Most ingame events seem focused on early game play. Overly redundant with little mid-game impact (click) Mid game is weak on content Players band are basically paper dolls... no apparent life. Opportunity for passive animations for visual interest and novelty value (drum stick twirling, hand signs, guitar strumming, nose picking, whatever) First visted venues seem to have little use for middle-game No favor/disfavor system for clubs No age progression leaving it possible to make it big at an unknown age ---------------------------- Mid Game play seems easist and workable if you just camp at a recording studio and crank out as many records you can of decent quality, touring only when required to meet the minimum of a contract. Camping. At this point, for me, the game becomes quite repetitive with the only real thing breaking that game-flow being the album contract process. (contact/wait/sign/fulfll/wait/create/sales) At this point I could comfortablly call it "Rock Biz Tycoon" but there really leaves little for me to feel like i am living the dream (or nightmare) beyond that. Early game I felt it. But now I do not feel like an aspiring God. Maybe it time to unlock star-studded rock god glitter outfits, pimp the bus, deal with groupies, due siginings and special shows,.... maybe I am still too early in the game progression but I have a feel that immersion and level of events are lacking... other than the ever present and self supposng ominous "we're watching .. keep in line" message I get alot and forever Needs: More middle game events and tasks that interupt or even accelerate game progression. events that trigger cancellations/loss or gain of a new band member/special condition to be met, etc.... Think: "record sales extended for a period if you do these three gigs... ", Band tries to recruit your drummer, or any number of drama events that affact bands in the process of trying to make it... With a little time and Love, the Devs couls edd events that add to the feel of a real bands struggles... "X Band claims copyright infringment haltinfg sales of album for 1 week" "Groupie found dead of overdose in bus... bus held for investigation-miss gig" "encore: audience calls for encore perfomance... fans and cash doubled and time at gig extended" "Weather in North East causes ground vehicles to drive twice as slow and airplane have no access for two days"
• gamedeal user

  Mar 20, 2017

  It's fun for awhile. Once you get everything it's meh. Also, you can "5 star" everything and still get a "2" review. Wait for a sale. It's good for killing time. Otherwise...meh.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 20, 2017

  There are a few games I always wanted to play, but nobody ever made them. A rock band tycoon game/ sim is definitely one of them. Thankfully, someone decided to correct this and make Rock God Tycoon. Rock God Tycoon is a game about forming a metal band, recording albums, and touring. Having been in a few bands myself, I can tell you that they do get at least most of this experience down as accurately as one could expect from a tycoon game. There are a few issues with that realism, but we'll get to that shortly. The key takeaway for now is that you're a metal band seeking stardom. I had to specify "metal" there because apart from a few rockabilly riffs and a few other riffs that hint teasingly toward shoeglaze, metal is pretty much the only style of music you can play here. Don't expect to become the next Radiohead, Weezer, or Kaiser Chiefs. If it isn't metal, you're not going to see much of it here. Hopefully this is something they'll correct in the future, though, which brings us to our next point... Awesome devs! My internet has been fidgety all week, so I picked this up to kill time while experiencing random outages. Yesterday, I wrote a song and uploaded it to the workshop. Literally within minutes, one of the developers had complimented the song's drums. That's when I came to realize these devs are very active in their community, encouraging to players, and extremely active with cranking out updates. They're also one of the few, rare dev teams that actually listens to player feedback and attempts to implement their suggestions, which is fantastic. I've only had this game for about 48 hours, and in that time there's already been two updates. Now for some basic pro's and con's: PROS: - Very addictive dayslayer tycoon game - Write your own songs using prefab "intros," "riffs," "breaks," and "outtros" for guitar, bass, and drums - Active devs are fixing stuff and adding stuff constantly - Visually and audibly appealing; graphics and sound match the game style and suit it well - Gameplay has a very low learning curve; any fan of tycoon games will jump right in and get it out of the box CONS: - Limited music selection (these prefab music parts are excellent, btw... I just want more of them) - Bands can't rehearse unless they go to a recording studio, which doesn't make sense - You'll sign an unrealistic number of record deals; would be better to sign fewer deals with longer/ stronger returns - Metal theme is quite limiting (unless you like metal, of course) - Touring could use some work All told, I think this is a very good game and it looks like it's getting better. I definitely recommend it if you're into tycoon games and you aren't turned off by metal music. If I could suggest a few things to devs, they'd be: 1. Bands should be rehearsing a set list whenever they have no other tasks assigned to them. That's how real bands work. The band could rehearse whichever song they know least, but this is interrupted whenever one or more bandmates are given a task (writing songs, busking, refining skills, etc). Players could set an option to rehearse specific songs until all bandmates have reached 100% in said songs. 2. Send the band (or specific band members) on vacation to more rapidly lower their tension. This would send those members away for a full weekend (Saturday and Sunday) and would cost money, but they'll return with less tension (variable based on the quality of the vacation you sent them on) 3. Signing a record deal with a label should lock you into a certain number of albums over a certain number of years with said label. You'd be required to produce (n) LP's in that time, with EP's, singles, B-sides, and live LP's being optional (labels may or may not offer those options). Albums are on the market forever, with sales lasting a bit longer than they do now. EP's, singles, etc. have short-term growth and bolster sales of the main album. you can walk into a store right now and buy Houses Of The Holy, an album that came out well before I was born. This idea of records going off the market is a bit bonkers, lol. 4. Touring should be a real thing. While the band is on tour, they can't rehearse. You book tour dates, and each city will require you to pay for gas, food, and hotel accomodations. Scaling food quality and hotel quality will determine how much tension is gained on that leg of the tour. While touring, album sales are improved considerably, but it's exhausting, and touring comes with its own set of random scenarios, too (gear getting stolen, drummer throwing TV's out of windows, groupies robbing you, etc.). I feel like touring is very incomplete, but like I said, these devs are awesome and they'll probably fix it eventually. 4. No Yoko references? Come on guys! Have you ever been in a band? lol
• gamedeal user

  May 1, 2017

  After purchasing this game I thought that I would have a quick look at it before bed. I was still up and playing 5 hours later and didn't realise until the sun came up and birds were making an annoying sound outside my window, If you like Tycoon type games and love to develop characters and their accomplishments then this game will not disappoint. What you need to remember at this stage is that Rock God Tycoon is still under development so you can play it but can also help in suggesting ideas and improvements to the game as it is being crafted. There are a few rhings that I dislike about the game, one being this unfinished state, The other is the limited riffs, breaks, intro's and outro's in the song editor. Both of these will be addressed I hope during later development. I like everything else about the game. The costs of hiring studios and gigs that pay peanuts is hard at the start (I know what that's like), but busking helps to pay the bills as you develop your character and bandmates to reach their full potential, Your fanbase is also important, increased by playing gigsm busking and by using an assortment of gifts and advertising from the store. As the number of fans grows, you are able to access more towns and cities with larger venues and better recording studios, video studeos and record labels. From their you can make music for your fans to enjoy and to make your funds swell. There are also numerous charts to explore that measure your bands quality and success, All told, I found this game addictive and pleasurable and well worth its asking price. Don't be put off by the fact that it is still in development mode, as it is still very playable and this fact only bodes well for what will be the finished artical. A big thumbs up from Unholy Pingu.
• gamedeal user

  May 24, 2017

  It's a cool idea for sure. I've played a similar game called Rock Manager many years ago and that was a far more polished game. There are lots of cool aspects to this game, but none of them seem to fit together particularly well. Some of the different parts of gameplay: [h1]Band Relationships [/h1] You do choose your bandmates, and ostensibly you're supposed to do things to increase or decrease their happiness, but there doesn't seem to be a clear list of things that affect them. Every so often a random event will occur that will improve or dimish band cohesion and happiness, but there's no guage to show what the current "state" of happiness is and so you can essentially just ignore it. It's essentially a non-feature since there's no interaction. [h1]Song Arrangement [/h1] Doesn't seem to really affect the gameplay at all, but is a novel feature. It is kind of annoying to have to arrange every song. I wish there was an auto-arrange feature so you didn't have to write a song if you don't want to. [h1]Scheduling Rehearsals/Recordings/Gigs [/h1] There's a calendar, but you have to navigate to it through a map. You can make some decisions like how to arrange props on the stage or what advertising to do, but it's mostly just scheduling stuff on the calendar. If you had some long, multi-city tours, this could be cool, but it feels really repetitive scheduling the same rehearsals over and over. [h1]Band Finances [/h1] The financial system doesn't seem very well tuned. One band member can earn more busking for a few hours than an entire gig. Without busking, you'd almost certainly run out of money. It kinda feels like they were never able to balance the finances of gigs, and so they just added in a "busking" option that allows you to basically get free money whenever you want, little bits at a time. [h1]Manual Performing/Rehearsal[/h1] Whenever you rehearse or play a gig, you sometimes have the option to play a kind of Guitar Hero mini-game using the keyboard. The problem is that, unlike Guitar Hero, the first levels are actually pretty difficult, and it's not really clear how much of an advantage a perfect manual score would give over the simulation; you just get a bunch of random numbers the end of the performance and it's not really clear if it was good or bad. [h1]Conclusion[/h1] There are probably a handful of other gameplay features hidden in there, but those are the main ones. At the moment, the game is kind of open-ended, but there isn't really a clear indicator of progress anywhere in the game. It's not really clear what the strategies should be for improving the band and making money. I would't recommend this game right now. Maybe if they streamline the gameplay or give clearer success metrics, but right now it just doesn't feel like you're accomplishing anything.
• gamedeal user

  May 28, 2017

  Came looking for a 21st century version of [url=http://www.myabandonware.com/game/rockstar-1rs] Rockstar![/url] Left disappointed, 6 hours later, and a $10 spot lighter. The custom song builder is insanely awkward and cumbersome to work with, and to build any coherent song from their audio clip library is almost impossible as you can only track one instrument at a time. Don't like that drum beat with your guitar riff, well, expect to click back and forth a lot! I had to write over 300 songs to get 100% skill in song writing, none of them were custom written, but had I done them all as custom songs, I'd be writing this review a year from now. Speaking of songs, they all seem to be completely souless and devoid of any personality or character. No anthem songs, classics, or anything else besides "X Corp wants to buy song 147 for $9,234" "Agree" Cycling through the tour map is another "click well of tedium" for anyone wanting to see what a venue or studio has to offer. Zoom in, zoom in again, check the venue, zoom out, zoom out again, zoom in to the next, etc etc. You start with a terrible agent, where Busking, which has to be clicked every single time to repeat!, pays more than any starter gig you can find locally. When you do finally unlock other venues, which is a static list based on fans collected, you will find the costs of traveling and advertisement always outweigh any chance of making a profit. The interface colours and design are quite gloomy and low contrast, combined with the script CAP block font that makes reading the dialogues a little difficult. The encounters, once all 10 are learned, are barely dynamic, dull, and predictable. I did watch your dev video on youtube and you've got a lot of potential with this game Seabass, but it's headed in a lot of different directions and but the "Tycoon" aspect seems to be a low priority.
• gamedeal user

  May 31, 2017

  I did enjoy my time playing Rock God Tycoon in parts, but overall the experience lacks depth, has a horrific UI, contains several bugs, and involves a lot of waiting around. The devs are updating the game at a regular and rapid pace and what they have in the pipeline looks like it's going to improve things dramatically which is very encouraging, but in its current state, I cannot bring myself to recommend this game.